Messages in this thread | | | From | Oliver Neukum <> | Subject | Re: suspend/resume support for driver requires an external firmware | Date | Mon, 27 Sep 2004 09:51:00 +0200 |
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Am Montag, 27. September 2004 08:23 schrieb Li, Shaohua: > Adding methods to the device core requires changes the device core every > time when you add a new call back. The notifier chain method can keep > the device core stable.
No. It pretends that the interface is stable. If additional callbacks are needed and provided externally, driver core is unable to do what it is intended to.
> Considering another case, we might want to add some call backs between > sysdevs resume and regular devices resume (the case is the above). It > might not be for a device. How can the device core call back do this?
The same way it resumes system devices.
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